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  • Guest director for this year Alok Rajwade who directed this play in Marathi earlier, helped the students put the play together for the final.
  • Alok Rajwade was the director for the play this year.

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    Aasakta Kalamanch

    Aasakta Kalamanch is a group of contemporary theatre performers based in Pune. They have worked since 2004 with a commitment to support young performing artists to come together and experiment with theatrical forms and tackle new themes. This grant will support the group in facilitating four young directors to collaborate and devise a Marathi performance titled Teechi Satra Prakaraney.

    In their early twenties, the directors Alok Rajwade, Nipun Dharmadhikar, Varun Narvekar and Sarang Saathe, exhibited immense potential in working with a strong visual language of performance. Their innovative work has created waves in the theatre community/festival circuits in and out of Maharashtra. The idea for creative collaboration originated when the four of them participated in a reading of Martin Crimp’s, Attempts on Her Life, organised by contemporary Marathi director, Mohit Takalkar. Crimp is hailed as one of the most exciting and unconventional British playwrights to emerge from the 1980s. Attempts on Her Life comprises of seventeen fragmented scenarios in which a variety of people talk about Anne, a ghost-like and polymorphous character, who possesses multiple identities. The characters in the play offer different views on the many lives of Anne, who we never

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    Pune’s theatre aficionados witnessed 17 characters in one play

    As a part of their final year project, students of Lalit Kala Kendra of Savitribai Phule Pune University(SPPU) recently performed a Marathi adaptation of internationally acclaimed British play Attempts on Her Life, written by Martin Crimp. The Marathi version titled — Tichi 17 Prakarne—was written by Pradeep Vaiddya in 2010. Guest director for this year Alok Rajwade who directed this play in Marathi earlier, helped the students put the play together for the final performance.

    Executed by the students with finesse, Tichi 17 Prakarnehad one central character named Aashi and 17 different situations revolving around her. Going by the Marathi adaptation by Vaiddya, the woman protagonist Aashi is seen through the eyes of several characters in different scenes, which in nature, are randomly placed. There is no apparent connection between the 17 scenarios of her life that was performed on stage. Alok Rajwade, the director, said “In the original English play, there is no dedicated script to render the total 17 characters, but to make it easier for the audience; I chalked out the different characters and situations to put it together. Usually, we have four directors depicting the 17 characters, but here I directed a